Spider-Man star Tom Holland says sobering up is "the best thing he ever did" when he realized alcohol had "slaved" him.
His journey to sobriety began after a "very, very drunk Christmas" in 2022, he told Jay Shetty's podcast He intended.
He decided not to taste a drop of alcohol in January, but all he could think about then was having one drink, which scared him.
"I thought, 'Maybe I have a drinking problem,'" he recalled.
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He decided not to drink for the next month either, but he found it hard to resist the English drinking culture.
"I felt that I couldn't socialize without it, that I couldn't go to the pub and only drink lime juice.
"I couldn't even go out to dinner, I was really struggling, and then I asked myself why I was a slave to drinking, why I was so obsessed with the idea that I should drink," said Holland.
Distracted and shaken, he decided not to drink for six months.
He achieved his goal on June 1, when he celebrated his 27th birthday.
Even then he felt "the happiest in his life".
He also listed all the benefits he has enjoyed since quitting drinking.
"I sleep better and face problems better.
"I can handle the things that bothered me before during filming, my mind is clear and I feel healthier," said the actor.
The star of the movie Spider-Man also mentions the consequences that accompany the state of sobriety.
One of them is that he distanced himself from the rugby community, because everything revolved around drinking.
He also encouraged his mother to stop drinking.
"It's amazing and she loves it.
"I can't believe how different I feel when I'm not drinking, amazing," he added.
Holland is currently on a nine-month hiatus from acting, after filming the grueling Apple TV series The crowded room.
As he explained last month, he found it difficult to play a role based on "campus rapist" Billy Mulligan, an American who claims to have 24 personalities inside him.
Milligan was the first man found not guilty of his own crimes on the basis of dissociative identity disorder.
Instead of a prison cell, he spent ten years in psychiatric hospitals.
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Holland says that during the recording he was “exploring certain emotions that I definitely had never felt before.
"And it was necessary to deal with production, to solve everyday problems that accompany any film set - additional pressure was created.
"I will take a break for a year, which only shows how demanding it was to shoot this series," he told Ekstra television.
Although he faced numerous problems during the past year, he was supported by his girlfriend and colleague who also appears in the movie Spider-Man, Zendaya.
“I'm lucky to have someone like her in my life and it's interesting to be in a romantic relationship with someone who's in a similar position to you.
"You can share experiences, which is extremely important," Holland said last week, appearing on an episode of the podcast Smartless.
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